bob should run in oshawa

after reading a post over at the ontario liberal regarding bob rae running in a riding that is a for sure thing instead of taking on a challenging riding... it got me thinking...

when you look about an hour outside of toronto you find the city/riding of oshawa ontario. oshawa has been one of the few ridings in the 905 where the ndp have had some strength in the past federal and provincial elections. usually the ndp come up a thousand or so votes of winning a seat in the riding becasue of us pesky liberals.

in the last two federal elections and the 2003 provincial election, union king pin sid ryan has run and lost by only a marginal amount. with bob being somewhat of a political super star he should perceivably be able to take votes from the ndp and ad to what is fairly steady voter support for the liberals.

here are the numbers from the last three federal elections and the last provincial election:

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Colin Carrie	20,617
	New Democrat	Sid Ryan	17,815
	Liberal	Louise V. Parkes	12,831
	Green	Adam Jobse	2,019
	Marxist-Leninist	David Gershuny	91

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Colin Carrie	15,815
	New Democrat	Sid Ryan	15,352
	Liberal	Louise V. Parkes	14,510
	Green	Liisa Walley	1,850
	Marxist-Leninist	Tim Sullivan	91

Canadian federal election, 2000
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Ivan Grose	16,179
	Canadian Alliance	Barry Bussey	10,863
	Progressive Conservative	Bruce L. Wright	5,675
	New Democrat	Bruce Rogers	4,203
	Marijuana	Craig James Michael McMillan	679
	Marxist-Leninist	David Gershuny	97

Ontario Provincial Election 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Jerry J. Ouellette	14,566
	New Democrat	Sid Ryan	13,547
	Liberal	Chris Topple	9383
	Green	Karen Tweedle	636
	Freedom Party of Ont. Family Coalition	Paul McKeever Dale Chilvers	518 383

if bob wants to really contribute to the party and take on a challenge ... then oshawa is the place to do it.